Wednesday, 1 July 2015

June was a busy month for Clarity and Barbara with the launch of the Groovi system, a Christmas show on Create and Craft and a week in France with the design team.

Did you follow Barbara's blogto see what they were all up to? Here's a photo from the murder mystery night, can you name all of the design team although there are a few red herrings too!

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Just a reminder that Barbara is on our TV screens on Create and Craft between 09.00 and 11.00 on Sunday 5th July. As usual there will be a live chat on the Clarity facebook page with all the positive chat whilst Barbara is crafting away on the TV. Make sure you've got a cuppa ready and waiting so that you don't have to leave the sofa!

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The lucky winner of the £50 Clarity voucher and our top 5 will be announced on Friday. Will you be one of the lucky winners?

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Here's the theme for our new challenge which will run throughout July:

Anything Goes

(using Clarity stamps/stencils ONLY)

We know you all love these challenges as it gives you artistic licence to create anything you like, as long as it's using Clarity stamps, stencils or the Groovi system of course.

It would be great to see some of your parchment designs along with mixed media, canvases, altered art and card making.

What theme will you choose?

If you would like a bit of inspiration, here are the challenge design team with their creations.

Please remember to read the rules to avoid your entry being disqualified.

Hi, I'm Fern, I live in Crawley and even though I'm only 22 I've been crafting in one way or another for most of my life. It started with finger painting with my Mum and it grew from there. We've now had a go at most crafts and enjoy doing a variety of things.

I'm relatively new to Clarity, having only discovered it a year or two ago, but I've quickly expanded my collection of stamps and stencils and love testing out the new techniques Barbara demonstrates. I really enjoyed the Clarity Open Days at Crowborough recently as well as the ones last year too. I'm already looking forward to next years now!

Being such a broad theme for this month I did find it challenging to think of what to do, but even though my design is quite simple, I still think it's really effective.

Good luck with your entries!

Here's Fern's guest designer card for the current challenge:

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There are several ways of entering the challenge:

BLOG - if you have a blog, click on the blue froggy link below and follow the instructions, remembering to link to your blog post and not just your blog

EMAIL - if you don't have a blog you can send a photo of your project to us and we'll enter it for you

claritystampchallenge@hotmail.com

If you have any questions relating to this challenge please don't hesitate to contact us. We will answer as quickly as we can in the hope that we can make the Clarity Stamp Challenge go from strength to strength. We can't do this without you!

We hope you have fun with this challenge and we can't wait to see your projects. You have until 20.00 on 31st July (GMT) to enter.